Democracy Quote by William Earl Maxwell

The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the…

— Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

“when the highest virtues of mankind cannot be accomplished fully through voluntary actions, the greater good demands that the government compel people to do…

— S.W. Southwick

Democracy is moral before it is political.

— Louis D. Brandeis

Morality is the object of government.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We would all like to see a perfect moral state with no government being necessary at all. That is not reality. To the extent…

— Robert Peate

“The moral test of government is how it treats people in the dawn of life, the children, in the twilight of life, the aged,…

— Hubert Humphrey

Now the good of political life is a great political good. It is not a secular good specified by a comprehensive doctrine like those…

— John Rawls

The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the…

— John Rawls

The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow,…

— John Ralston Saul

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

— John Jay Chapman

“In a real democracy, what matters is not just the outcome but the way that citizens participate in a debate about the future. That…

— Mick Hume

“Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.”

— Elias Boudinot